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June 25, 1993
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Elaine Ellis, Assistant Director
ST. PAUL SOCIALITE LEAVES CARLETON COLLEGE $2 MILLION
Northfield, Minn. -- Charlotte Mead Sanford, whose Summit Avenue home
was a hub of St. Paul social and cultural life in the early 1900s,
bequeathed Carleton College $2 million to provide financial aid for
deserving music, art and modern language students.
With the recent death of her daughter, Frances, the trust Sanford
created in 1960 when she was nearly 90-years-old now becomes the
Charlotte M. Sanford Scholarship Foundation at Carleton.
Sanford did not attend Carleton, but some of her closest friends
were alumni. She recalled frequent visits to Carleton's Great Hall,
which was built through the generosity of her friends Cordenio and
Mary Frances Severance.
Sanford and her husband, Edward, also socialized with Frank B.
Kellogg, who was part of Carleton's and St. Paul's history. Later the
couple was friendly with former Carleton President Laurence M. Gould.
Gould was somewhat perplexed by Sanford's affection for a place
to which she had no direct link beyond a sympathy with its educational
mission.
"My 'precise reasons' for my interest in Carleton seem to mystify
you a bit," she wrote to Gould. "Why try ever to fathom a woman's
reason for her actions?"
Gould invited her to campus, but Sanford's health was failing.
"Have wanted to motor to Carleton while the country is fresh and
green, but could not manage it," she wrote one May. "Friends have
offered to drive me down, but I cannot talk all the way to Northfield
and have enough breath, or wits, left to talk with you, so shall look
for a silent chauffeur to drive me."
Letters, newspaper articles and her diaries reveal Sanford as a
witty, well-read and self-assured woman. She loved poetry and music
and wanted her foundation at Carleton to benefit students of the arts.
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June 25, 1993
Spl39
Elaine Ellis, Assistant Director
ST. PAUL SOCIALITE LEAVES CARLETON COLLEGE $2 MILLION
Northfield, Minn. -- Charlotte Mead Sanford, whose Summit Avenue home
was a hub of St. Paul social and cultural life in the early 1900s,
bequeathed Carleton College $2 million to provide financial aid for
deserving music, art and modern language students.
With the recent death of her daughter, Frances, the trust Sanford
created in 1960 when she was nearly 90-years-old now becomes the
Charlotte M. Sanford Scholarship Foundation at Carleton.
Sanford did not attend Carleton, but some of her closest friends
were alumni. She recalled frequent visits to Carleton's Great Hall,
which was built through the generosity of her friends Cordenio and
Mary Frances Severance.
Sanford and her husband, Edward, also socialized with Frank B.
Kellogg, who was part of Carleton's and St. Paul's history. Later the
couple was friendly with former Carleton President Laurence M. Gould.
Gould was somewhat perplexed by Sanford's affection for a place
to which she had no direct link beyond a sympathy with its educational
mission.
"My 'precise reasons' for my interest in Carleton seem to mystify
you a bit," she wrote to Gould. "Why try ever to fathom a woman's
reason for her actions?"
Gould invited her to campus, but Sanford's health was failing.
"Have wanted to motor to Carleton while the country is fresh and
green, but could not manage it," she wrote one May. "Friends have
offered to drive me down, but I cannot talk all the way to Northfield
and have enough breath, or wits, left to talk with you, so shall look
for a silent chauffeur to drive me."
Letters, newspaper articles and her diaries reveal Sanford as a
witty, well-read and self-assured woman. She loved poetry and music
and wanted her foundation at Carleton to benefit students of the arts.
(more)